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Chalamet and Hammer have both been praised for their fearless work on the movie.

As well as their emotional commitment to the story, they bared more than their souls and were shown fully naked - but only from behind.

Ivory recently revealed that his original screenplay included a scene with the two stars full-frontal naked after making love. In the movie the camera pans tastefully away and director Luca Guardagnini insisted that was always his plan.

Ivory called this "bullsh**" and says the original version was far more explicit.

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Ivory told the Guardian: "When Luca says he never thought of putting nudity in, that is totally untrue. He sat in this very room where I am sitting now, talking about how he would do it, so when he says that it was a conscious aesthetic decision not to, well, that's just bull****.

"The two guys have had sex and they get up and you certainly see everything there is to be seen.

"To me, that's a more natural way of doing things than to hide them, or to do what Luca did, which is to pan the camera out of the window toward some trees."

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Ivory added: "When people are wandering around before or after making love, and they're decorously covered with sheets, it's always seemed phoney to me. I never liked doing that. And I don't do it, as you know."

Back in his Merchant Ivory glory days, the then director featured daring male full-frontal nudity in movies like A Room With A View and Maurice.